BGC Digital Media Lab

To create a table on your wiki page, use the "table wizard" button.

In the pop-up window, you can select how many columns and rows you wish your table to have.

The resulting code will look like this:

|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||
|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||
|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||

Your page will then look like this:

You can also choose, in this same window, to have a header above each column.

The resulting code would look like this:

||~ header ||~ header ||~ header ||
|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||
|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||

Your table will then look like this:

You can now replace each "cell-content" and/or "header" block with the desired text.

You can also make either your cell-content or your header span multiple columns. For instance, if you wanted your header to span all three columns and your first cell to span two columns, you would alter your code so that it looks like this:

||||||~ header ||
|||| cell-content || cell-content ||
|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||

Your table will now look like this:

As indicated in the table wizard window, you can alter your text alignment within the cells by following the "||" marker with "<" for left alignment, "=" for center alignment, or ">" for right alignment. For example, you might alter your code to look like this:

||< left ||= center ||> right ||
|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||
|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||

Your table would then look like this:

Lastly, you can break your text and begin a new line within a given cell by typing a space, an underscore (_), and the return key, so that your code looks like this:

||text _
new line || cell-content || cell-content ||
|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||
|| cell-content || cell-content || cell-content ||

Your table would then look like this:

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